god damn is there cheats or something for the part when you're lying in a pile of broken robots and they keep fucking coming out and there's explosions ABSOLUTELY FUCKING EVERYWHERE and you start out with an incredibly tiny amount of health and a shit hammer

I don't know if this was answered or not, but going to DBG_DOGMODE=false in config.ini and changing it to 'true' will turn on godmode.

Thrashing about swinging your weapon at 20 million miles per hour all the time works sometimes, but often gets you killed. Gotta remember that you're not really any more powerful than the average enemy, you just often have better weapons. If you're going to behave like an AI and just charge people blindly, it's going to be an evenly matched fight. Which means you'll often lose, especially when multiple enemies are involved.

Stay collected and move carefully. Half of my strikes are just me casually floating around slipping enemies and letting them drag against my blade. Be patient and don't take risks, if a guy is laying in a pile of deadly weapons, find a way to finish him off from a range instead of plowing into him and getting yourself all fucked up.

Also, there's a lot of visual/audio cues for things enemies do. They always grunt and shit before they throw something, as well as jerk back and forth. Ones with the bomb spamming system need to be still in order to use it, keep hitting them and they won't be able to.

Put enemies in front of each other. If you were fighting 3 people in real life, the smart thing to do would be to position yourself so 1 person can never get to you because you're keeping someone else between you. If you're fighting 3 enemies in the game, make it so one of them is always behind another one and cannot attack you. Getting completely surrounded is bad, bad, bad.